Aug 22, 2019 Excel gives you many more options for editing, but what if someone sends you a file in PDF format? It's easy enough to convert a PDF to just about anything and Excel. Dec 07, 2017 Rather than copy and paste, Acrobat X exports to an Excel workbook from where you can transfer into an existing table if required. To save a specific table from a PDF document, draw a selection box around it, right-click the selection and choose Export Selection As, then choose Excel Workbook from the file type menu.
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When I copy data in a table like this from a PDF, it gets translated into plain text without any delimiting characters to distinguish which column the data is in.
It would be helpful if I could highlight only a single column in the pdf at a time, but it currently tries to select left to right both columns as I highlight. Is there any trick for this?
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Holding down the Alt key should allow you to select a column of text.
(Note: I've only tested this with Acrobat Pro, not Acrobat Reader.)
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You can use the Microsoft word 'Convert to table' function outlined here.
It's not exactly what you need but at least it is quicker.
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Try to upload it to Google Docs and then save as XLS file, it should work
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It's not straight forward, however there are a large number of free or cheap services in the cloud for extracting such tables from PDFs.
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Please find below the comparison table automated table extraction solutions according to Zanran:
So based on above, you may consider Zanran's Table Xtractor which has ability to finds the tables in your PDFs and converts them to Excel.
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